312390 (v.1) Algology and Mycology 202

Area:	Department of Environmental and Aquatic Sciences
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.5
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork:	1 x 1 Days Once-only
Prerequisite(s):	1756 (v.8) Plant Biology 102- Activated in Error, Use 312365. or any previous version
Syllabus:	Mycology, classification and characteristics of fungi: zygomycetes, basidiomycetes, ascomycetes, deuteromycetes, lichens and mycorrhize, morphology, life cycle, ecological and economic importance, local examples. Fungi and human affairs. Algology, classification of algae. Criteria: photosynthetic pigments, food reserves, nature of cell wall, flagella, cytology. Morphology and vegetative organisation: unicellular, protococcoidal, flagellate unicells, colonial, flagellate colonies, non-flagellate coenobia, filamentous, siphonaceous and parenchymatous. Vegetative, asexual, sexual reproduction. Life cycles. Cyanobacteria, dinophyta, bacillariophyta, euglenophyta, chlorophyta, charophyta, phaeophyta, rhodophyta: reproduction and life cycle, ecologicaland economic importance, local examples.
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Field of Education:	010999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External